Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is an animated children's series that began airing on September 3, 2012, on the PBS Kids block of most PBS stations in the United States. The program is an animated Spin-Off of the beloved Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and features the little 5 year old son of the Daniel Tiger character first seen on that series, as well as some other familiar characters like Prince Tuesday. Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood was created by several of the creators of Blue's Clues and is a production of their production company, Out of the Blue Enterprises. The series is animated in CGI, but uses Adobe Flash for its song segments and also features interstitials and songs with real kids.

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is targeted at young audiences around the age of 2-4, rather than the wider target audience of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and carries a focus on social development and emotions. Each installment features Daniel either at home, at one of his friend's houses, or at school with his friends. The show was made with the direct involvement of the Fred Rogers Company and had been in development for six years after the company realized it could not survive without making a new show. Fred Rogers had considered grooming a replacement before his death, but could never find someone suitable, and the creators decided not to include any character intended to represent a form of Rogers in the series for this reason. Despite this, the program contains many nods to the original show. In 2013, the program won the Parents Choice Award.

The program airs weekdays and is presented in widescreen HD where available. Episodes were once available on Netflix and Hulu. Following an exclusivity deal, the series is now available on Amazon Prime.

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood features examples of the following:

An Aesop: Often delivered in song. Curiously, all of the adults seem to know these songs. It's almost as if they're teaching them to one another. This is directly Lampshaded in "Something Special for Dad" when Mr. McFeeley sings one of the songs that Daniel's mom sung and then flashes a wink at her.

Aside Glance: It's very subtle, but in "Good Morning Daniel," when Daniel does a juggling act with his shoes instead of putting them on like he's supposed to, Mr. Tiger seems to give a glance at the screen.

Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Averted, likely because it would feel dumb to have the Funny Animals barefoot, but the humans in shoes. Inverted with the owl as he is wearing nothing but shoes. And, of course, if Daniel didn't wear shoes, then they wouldn't be able to reference Mister Rogers putting on his shoes by having Daniel do it in the show opening. Or having him take them off in the "It's You I Like" song.

Big Storm Episode: "A Storm in the Neighborhood / After the Storm" is all about this - a big storm comes through the neighborhood in which the characters live. The episode is all about storm preparation before the storm, how to stay safe and keep calm during the storm, and helping out with cleaning up afterwards.

Blind Without 'Em: Averted with Prince Wednesday in "No Red Sweater for Daniel." He accidentally broke his glasses and has to go out for a while without wearing them while they're getting repaired. He, however, has no problem going out in the town and immediately recognizes Daniel and the fact that he's not wearing his red sweater. It becomes more clear exactly how his vision is being affected only when Daniel plays dress-up with a brown hat, which Wednesday describes as a "fuzzy brown blob."

But Not Too Black: Averted with Miss Elaina, who has a white mother and black father, but has a reasonably dark skin tone.

Carnivore Confusion: Of the type that completely ignores the issue, of course. If Katerina was really a cat and Daniel was really a tiger, O the Owl would be a meal to the former and a light snack to the latter.

Decided By One Vote: The outcomes of two episodes about voting. Since the kids vote, the result is 3-2.

When they choose their class pet, they choose it in an open vote in which Daniel is the last to vote... after the result is already 3-1! Poor kid may as well not even have voted.

Diurnal Nocturnal Animal: O the Owl and his family, Katerina the cat and her family (though there is apparently some debate about whether cats are nocturnal or crepuscular), Daniel Tiger and his family (tigers in areas without humans have been observed to hunt by day)

Edutainment Show: Focused on social issues and emotional understanding, with general learning thrown in as well.

Everything Talks: Daniel often slips into fantasy song numbers in which everything talks, even all of the objects in the bathroom, but this doesn't happen in his actual world.

Fake Interactivity: The opening on each episode has Daniel asking the viewers if they'd join him at the end of the teaser. Daniel will also sometimes ask questions of the viewers and wait for an answer.

First-Name Basis: The kids are on this with Teacher Harriet, though she does at least get the title of "Teacher."

Flanderization: Miss Elaina originally was just really amused by a "Backwards" themed party. Now she delights in doing anything backwards that she can, and her outfit's been retconned to be on backwards (with the tag peeking out the front).

Full-Name Basis: Daniel is often referred to fully as Daniel Tiger, rather than just Daniel.

Furry Reminder: The animal characters seem to fall somewhere between being Civilized Animals and Funny Animals, but sometimes display animal-like tendencies like making the noises that an animal of their species would normally make ("meow meow"), or displaying other animal behaviors.

Generation Xerox: Katerina Kittycat turned out a lot like her mother. Also, apart from being more outgoing, Daniel Jr. is his father in miniature.

Last-Minute Baby Naming: In "The Baby is Here," Daniel's baby sister is just "the baby" up until she's brought home and a brief bit afterwards. She is named Margaret on-the-spot when Daniel mentions his favorite picture book, Margaret's Music, and Mr. Tiger recalls a Grandma Margaret that was very dear to him.

Leitmotif: King Friday has a sort of little fanfare thing that tends to play when he shows up on the scene.

Limited Wardrobe: Most of the characters always wear the same set of clothes; Daniel has three sets of pajamas, though it feels a bit odd if the show opens with them wearing pajamas, given that he was just shown putting his shirt and shoes in the show intro. No Red Sweater for Daniel shows that Daniel actually has sweaters in blue, purple and green as well as his trademark red sweater; it's just that the red sweater is his favorite and so he always wears it. At Mom Tiger's urging, he wears the blue one because You can change your hair, or what you wear, but no matter what you do, you're still you. This doesn't explain, though, how he can normally be wearing a red sweater every day if he has to wear a different sweater just because ol' red got thrown in the wash.

Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: Daniel Tiger, his various animal friends and parents, human friends and their parents and a human teacher. Bonus points for Daniel being an actual tiger. The whole thing is pretty much Lamp Shaded in the story "Same and Different." Daniel feels he's different from his friends because he has a tail, at least until he realizes Katerina has one too. The human characters all end up together in a photo, with the animal characters characters lined up together also. And Miss Elaina points out quite candidly that her skin color is different from Prince Wednesday's, though Teacher Harriet notes it's the same as hers.

Nobody Poops: Averted. Since the target audience is very young children who might still need to learn the finer points of potty training, the show makes sure to tackle the issue directly. They even have a song about the matter:

If you have to go potty, stop! And go right away. / Flush and wash and be on your way!

One Steve Limit: With two Daniel Striped Tigers, things can get very confusing very quickly.note Which is probably why Daniel Sr. is usually referred to as 'Dad' by Daniel Jr. or 'Mr. Tiger'.

One episode has Daniel Sr. getting a letter from his own father, Grandpere...but in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood it was established Grandpere is NOT his father, there was an entire arc dedicated to the fact that Daniel was an orphan, he did not have a father growing up and was jealous of his friends for having one! Grandpere isn't even his Grandfather cause there was another arc depicting how Daniel did not have a Grandfather either and wished for one. It was even the basis for an opera!note It was established in that original show that Daniel would marry Grandpere's daughter (who is possibly meant to be Daniel Jr.'s mother), making him his father-in-law. He could just be referring to him as his father out of politeness.

Also, on this show, Prince Tuesday is a teenager while Daniel Sr. is a full-grown adult. But in the 1979-2001 run of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Daniel Striped Tiger and Prince Tuesday were the same age and went to school together. In the earlier 70's episodes, Daniel was older than Tuesday, but not by that much.

Lady Elaine seems to be... much younger-looking, prettier and with a more feminine, far less gravely voice than she was before, along with a much lighter attitude. Getting married and having a daughter may explain her lightened attitude, no idea on her appearance shy of retconning. Although a previous Mister Rogers episode did establish that she was destined to live to be 250 years old, so perhaps she manages that by finding ways to become young again every so often?

And also King Friday XIII. On the original show he was pompus, self-centered, loved to give speeches so he could hear himself talk, and had that 'I am the king, what I say goes' attitude. In this version he's much more cheerful, the speeches are much shorter,he sounds more jolly, and in one episode he even danced out of a room while singing and doing 'jazz hands'! In the original show that would be beneath him!

When cooking soup for Mom Tiger in "Mom Tiger is Sick," Mr. Daniel Tiger adds "Just a little Mrs. Salt and some Mr. Pepper." While it was Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper on Blue's Clues, it still seems very close, especially when consider that Angela C. Santomero has a story credit on the episode.

Daniel Tiger's fantasy sequence in "Mom Tiger is Sick" in which he imagines himself as a superhero fighting germs features the same style and general appearance as Super Mario Bros..

In a tribute to Fred Rogers, "After the Storm" features a song that includes the phrase "Look to the helpers," which was a phrase that Mister Rogers became known for.

Sick Episode: "Daniel Gets a Cold / Mom Tiger is Sick". Mom Tiger and Daniel also both get a cold in "Daniel's Neighbors Help."

Spin-Offspring: A variation: Most of the families are straight examples, but X the Owl becomes an uncle, and King Friday and Queen Sarah have another son.

Stealth Pun: Mom Tiger is only off-screen for about 10 minutes between leaving to give birth to Baby Margaret and Mr. McFeely showing up to announce the news to Daniel (and the audience) that the baby has arrived. McFeely naturally precedes the announcement with "Speedy Delivery!"

That Makes Me Feel Angry: A main thrust of the program is to teach children how to handle their emotions, so this is heavily, heavily employed. Expect the characters to talk regularly about how they are feeling, the adults to praise them for doing so, and to encourage them to do so if they don't. There's even an episode called "Daniel Uses his Words / All Aboard!" which specifically deals with this; it also reveals that when Daniel doesn't use his words, he gets growly instead.

Three-Month-Old Newborn: Daniel's baby sister Margaret is introduced in the second season; she is essentially this, if not exaggerated. She is soon shown crawling, even doing a bit of walking, and wanting to play with her big brother.note We don't know, though, how much time went by between episodes. It could be a few months in between each one, enough time for her to learn how to crawl.

According to this article, she's officially 14-months old once she's aged up from newborn.

You Mean "Xmas": Major holiday names are changed to generic counterparts for the show's many different holiday specials. Valentine's Day is called "Love Day", Halloween is called "Dress Up Day" and Thanksgiving is called "Thank You Day." There's also "Snowflake Day," but in addition to that, there's a Merry Christmas, Daniel Tiger! book release, so it seems with that one, they celebrate both Snowflake Day and Christmas.

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